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I didn't finish anything from a prompt but I have been writing almost every day for a whole month. Your prompt list kicked it off and I just went off in a different direction. Thank you.

Writing every day is a big win in my books :) you did a great job. Keep going ❤️

-mod pan

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1,7,10 for the 40 questions for fic writers

1) Describe your comfort zone—a typical you-fic.

Warm sensual smut with feelings, with an emphasis on oral sex and maybe some size kink. Or general shippy nonsense, usually femslash. <3

7) Share a snippet from one of your favorite pieces of prose you’ve written and explain why you’re proud of it.

She knew—vaguely—of land-dweller customs. She knew the burnt woman of their church, but never held much faith. Could you eat your gods in times of famine? If not, what good were they? What use was religion if it couldn’t sustain you?

Or maybe these fragile, death-bound little humans needed to believe that something waited on the other side. They needed to believe in souls in the way that Isabela believed in whale falls, in unexpected kindness and serendipity that nourished hidden depths.

that’s what the water gave me is an Aveline/Isabela mermaid AU, told from mermaid!Isabela’s POV. One of the themes I really wanted to explore was place and belonging, and the way that hungers can nourish or terrify. One piece of Isabela’s history is being captured by Luis, which made me think of selkie stories, which themselves are easily interpreted as an allegory for the kidnap of indigenous women. Which made this an extended metaphor for Isabela’s distaste for forced conversion and general mistrust of land-dwellers and a religion that (to her) only offers pain without nourishment.

And just. I like to think these are a few lovely paragraphs. They flow. And they manage to be both interesting (with varied sentence length and a playful display of wordiness and specificity) and to tie together some of the main themes of the fic. Isabela truly doesn’t understand Aveline yet, but she wants to, despite herself.

10) Which fic has been the easiest to write?

*hour long fart noise* Are any fics truly easiest to write??? Or is it just that I black out on all memory of writing them afterwards???

…a quick flip through my AO3, and the easiest fic I’ve written in a while was All Mouth and Bad Ideas. It was fun PWP featuring a disaster decker that I’ve thought a lot about but never actually written about before. IR-8 is a nonbinary disaster, the kind of character who picks all the hilariously bad dialogue options but makes up for it by being frighteningly competent in their one area of specialty: drone combat.

Plus just. Aleksi Laine is hot and easily the Shadowrun: Dragonfall character that I’ve thought about writing the most smut for. (....or maybe a tossup between him and Eiger. Big tall trolls make my brain go brrrrrr.)

Thank you for the asks! I had fun answering!

(Asks are from this meme!)

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